The NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship Four will be held on Saturday at Phoenix International Raceway before the Cup Series holds its race the next day, and there is a lot of tension going into the event.

While the stock car world has been focusing its attention on Ross Chastain’s move at Martinsville Speedway to get into the Cup Series’ Championship Four, the Xfinity Series saw some controversy of its own when Ty Gibbs wrecked teammate Brandon Jones and won the race. 

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If Gibbs stayed behind Jones, Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) would have had two cars in the finale instead of just one. JGR will have one car, instead, while JR Motorsports will have three.

Noah Gragson, who will be competing for the championship along with Josh Berry and Justin Allgaier, did not mince words when talking about Gibbs to the media on Thursday.

"He doesn’t care. He lives in fantasyland," Gragson said. "I have no clue honestly what goes through his mind. It’s got to be badass to live in the kind of world where you just have no real consequences or anything."

Gragson added, "Just voicing my opinion, I don’t like him. It’s just speaking what everybody doesn’t want to say, but they feel it."

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Gibbs, 20, has been successful in his young pro career. He won his NASCAR debut in 2021 and has 10 wins in 50 starts. He won the ARCA Championship last season and has been doing double duty since July as the injury replacement for Kurt Busch. Gibbs is set to race in the Cup event on Sunday.

However, his aggressive driving has made him an enemy for some on the track. He drew ire after last week’s event when he compared himself to Jesus.

"I always go back to the same verse, that Jesus was hated first and among all the people," he said.

While his grandfather Joe Gibbs said there would be consequences for his actions against Jones, the driver appeared to be humbled Thursday.

The Xfinity Series Championship Race is set to start at 6 p.m. ET on Saturday.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Former Reagan Justice Department Chief of Staff Mark Levin warned that while the past several elections' Democratic Party slates have been decidedly left-wing, none have been so Marxist and anti-democratic as the one being presented to the American people on Tuesday.

Levin warned he's never seen people so bent on "destroy[ing] this country" as he has in the key swing states, which otherwise tend to trend centrist, this cycle.

"Let's all pretend we're ten points behind everywhere across the country. That's what we ought to do… But we got to get our ass and gear and defeat these people. They're going to destroy the country. This is the biggest line up of Democrat Party reprobates who want to serve in the Senate, in the House that I've ever seen in my life," he said.

"[This is] the worst, most extreme hate-America crowd you can imagine," he said, explicitly pointing to statewide candidates in Wisconsin, North Carolina and Georgia.

Levin characterized Biden, in turn, as a "damnable Washington bureaucrat" who spent his entire adult life on the taxpayer's dime and allegedly that of the "Communist Chinese payroll."

"That goes for Pelosi and Schumer too," he said, as Pelosi succeeded the late Rep. Sala Burton, D-Calif., in 1987 – and Schumer has worked explicitly in politics since his 1974 election to the New York State Assembly representing Brighton Beach.

Levin said the election transcends basic right-and-left politics, and that it presents voters with an even more dire choice:

"Do you like being called names by Joe Biden in his party? Did you ever have a president of the United States who's trashing the American people?" he asked, noting Biden declared Trump voters to be dangerous to democracy.

Keying into the fact Biden has repeatedly lamented Republicans as "deniers" of various instances such as the 2020 elections, Levin said Democrats are collectively "gas price deniers," and deniers of open borders, fentanyl, and "massive debt."

"Of course, they're desperate. They want you to actually believe that if you vote for these wild, crazy, riotous Republicans who are well known for overthrowing the country… burning down cities… attacking cops and the military; who are well known for burning the American flag… that we will not have our country the day after the election. Really?" Levin said facetiously.

Levin however added that Republicans are not to be automatically trusted either, focusing on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. – whom he said has "trashed" the "citizen candidates."

Returning to the Democratic Party's new "Marxist" identity, Levin said they have successfully transformed the American republic into something the Soviets failed at, and the Chinese have been unsuccessful in for 70 years.

"They did it in 20 months: I would say to Republicans, ‘unite’ – I would say to independents, ‘help us’ -- I would say to Democrats. ‘Wash this dirt off your hands and join us’. This is an election between those who love America and those who hate America."

"We have a man in the Oval Office. Every speech he gives, he's cringing -- He's grinding his teeth – He's angry and he's angry at you."